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Heavy Mettle
PostedMay 2, 2008
Monster
from Rocky Mountains
This movie is great fun from end to end. The pace is always brisk and the timing, excellent. Although the sound engineers did a sophomoric job of making it easier to pick out all of the great one-liners, it only seemed like their hearing must be infinitely better than the average viewer. I'm sure that someone considered this future reason to be consistently backtracking on the DVR to be some kind of dramatic nuance, albeit an exceedingly irritating interruption for the next couple of lines to have to hear half of the audience keep repeating the question 'what did they say..?' . I personally feel that this individual is an idiot, but then, I am just the average viewer. Robert Downey Jr. has risen, again. I hope and pray that, for his sake as well as that of other talent-starved movie lovers, he keep his general personal criteria in a neat pile ad infinitum. He pulls this off with the kind of aplomb that demands another viewing, and soon. Gwyneth Paltrow threw in some unexpectedly deep and deft acting chops that we rarely get to see someone use to seemingly prove the axiom, 'there are no small parts, only small actors'. She owned the role. Jeff Bridges was a sort of weak spot, always predictable and apparently going for the 'most likely to be mistaken for Chris Kristofferson' nods. He made for a sufficient conflict character, however. The special effects were top-notch; no 'Shrek-on-steroids' animation this time around. Again, the pace and comedic timing made this a true joy to spend 2 hrs 6 mins and exorbitant ticket prices worth the effort to sneak in your own treats so as to avoid going into bankruptcy paying the saw buck for a medium bag of burnt popcorn and a bottle of water as well as providing the Texas-Arab juice being relatively thirstily guzzled by even your average Prius. If you only get to see one in this summer of hard times, you could do a lot worse than Iron Man.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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